Teaching and learning materials

This database aims to facilitate teachers access to educational materials relevant to pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures. This way they will be able to help learners appropriate their knowledge, attitudes, and skills as described in the lists of descriptors. The materials, available to download, can be selected according to various criteria: objectives (as expressed by the FREPA descriptors), levels of training, thematic areas, the type of pluralistic approach, and the language of instruction.

Students have to work in groups to create posters, models, etc. that represent the main streets of their town/district area including their linguistic/cultural diversity and then they have to present it to another class in another linguistic and geographical context.

Students have to work in groups to create posters, models, etc. that represent the main streets of their town/district area including their linguistic/cultural diversity and then they have to present it to another class in another linguistic and geographical context.

The aims of this activity are: to identify the languages that appear in the texts (Gaelic, English, French, Catalan, Spanish, Italian, German), to indicate those words that are similar to Spanish words and to complete a table with some Italian words, Gaelic, English, French, German and Catalan.

The overall goals of this role play are to make students "analyse (their) attitudes towards people of different social and cultural groups”, “explore strategies for conflict resolution”, “reflect on the limits of tolerance” and “reflect on the relationship between discrimination and conflict of interest".

The overall aim of this activity is to introduce students to a way of expressing future plans in Italian and explore this grammatical structure and use in itself, as well as in comparison to other romance languages (French and Spanish).

Research shows a tendency towards Nordic languages no longer being part of the school curriculum in the Nordic countries and that Nordic youngster have problems in understanding other Nordic languages.

The activity in question was designed for pupils who share Portuguese as their mother tongue (Brazilians) with the aim of improving both their interactional abilities in the Spanish language and their knowledge of cultural particularities linked to the notion of time in Spanish.